Remove cooked rice from pot and add remaining 2 Tbsp oil. Add onion celery and carrot and sauté until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add Arborio rice and stir to coat, 1 minute. Add wine and stir until absorbed. Add 1 cup chicken stock and stir until absorbed (you can reduce heat to low and then you can walk away from the pot for a minute or 2). Add thyme and sage and you add the final bit of stock (when rice is cooked but still al dente). Stir in cranberries, pumpkin seeds and reserved wild rice. Stir in Asiago until melted and season to taste. Let risotto cool slightly.

3.

Preheat oven to 375F (190C). Cut tops out of mini bell peppers (keeping) and spoon out seeds. Spoon risotto into each mini pepper until heaping and top with cap. Bake for 15 minutes, just to soften pepper, then serve.

4.

Mini peppers can be served as hors d’oeuvres or snacks, or filling makes 4 large peppers for a great side dish.